This thread is jumping the shark lately... I almost agree, but wouldn't even give him that much.

Cheap and just all-out not "NIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice" cars that are altered with some artistic balance (even that Frosted Flakes Caprice) gets far more respect out of me than some monstrosities I've seen, so I'm calling just about all of the last few pages of pictures in this thread fails on the part of the posters.

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Stop bumping this thread with inane cars that at least someone is paying attention to (as opposed to letting them rust away or just fade in the sun).

I should have unsubscribed a week ago when it hit me that the most recent postings have been sucking hard.

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The bedazzled civic is a little more WTF than anything, certainly looks like it was done as a joke, the real WTF is who would spend that much time and effort on what is really (a stupid) one line joke

I have one of these running around my town with the huge matchbox car wheels and a big SUNKIST logo on the side.

Is it a drug thing or are these guys just really into frosted flakes and sunkist? :huh

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I sent this pic to a friend of mine whose softball nickname is Frosted Flakes (I can't even remember why now) and he said he'd seen one like it in the 'hood in North Minneapolis, so they must be relatively common.

They are pretty common. It's just people celebrating that which they grew up liking/loving.

If done to a 2013 Mercedes, now in 2012, I'd question it, but I love the expression and art of it on the vehicles they choose to do them on.

I've seen some neat ones here in south Florida, but for the life of me... can't remember what they were.

Too, they very well may stand out on purpose, and be easy to memorize, as drug sales points (drug dealers), but meh, I'm not against non-family members using drugs anyway. I don't know if that's how they're all used though - but I think you've got to agree that that type of painted 'art' is much more pleasing to the eye than graffiti - which was the old style of 'art' such cultures used to use.

I have one of these running around my town with the huge matchbox car wheels and a big SUNKIST logo on the side.

Is it a drug thing or are these guys just really into frosted flakes and sunkist? :huh

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They're called "Donks" or "Hi-Risers" in the East and SE and "Risers" in the West. Scraper bikes are catching on as well and there's a kid in the neighborhood riding one made from a doubled-up frame.
I thought the graphics were usually a NASCAR team but now take on consumer product graphics, almost as a nickname. That one seems professionally done and they aren't just old school anymore!

The most striking donks have &#8220;themes,&#8221; lifted from pop culture &#8212; or, surprisingly often, branding. The Hawaiian Punch Green Berry Rush donk, built by Mr. Scrape Customs in Sumter, S.C., is a good example: its owner brought along a bottle of the stuff to Mr. Scrape and announced, &#8220;I want it to look like this,&#8221; explains Robbie Casselman, the shop&#8217;s director of sales and marketing. So the car mimics the screaming green color and includes a custom interior console with Hawaiian Punch labels under plastic, as well as a big logo on the trunk. Mr. Scrape has also built cars with Lucky Charms and Spider-Man themes. In addition to donks with color schemes inspired by Garfield or Sonic the Hedgehog, other logo-themed examples online or in the pages of Donk, Box & Bubble include McDonald&#8217;s, Newport cigarettes and Aquafina. From what both Scotto and Casselman say, this began largely as a matter of aesthetics and took a quick road to conspicuousness. Borrowing an appealing color combination from striking packaging seems to have led to a way of making form match function in total outrageousness.